Green Bay Packers: Pros and Cons of Bringing Back RB Aaron Jones
A speedy, dual-threat veteran's return? Weighing the injury risks against the locker room leadership and potential spark for the Green Bay Packers' 2026 backfield.
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Aaron Jones is about to become a free agent.
It's not guaranteed the Vikings can still try to trade him before the beginning of the new league year, which is March eleventh.
With that said, they're more than likely not gonna find a, a trade partner for Jones.
He's thirty-one years old.
He's gonna carry a cap hit.
I don't know what his cap hit is actually.
I, I didn't look that up, but I can tell you that, the Vikings can save quite a bit of money by cutting him, seven point seven five million.
So for the Vikings that makes sense.
Now, the big question, for the Packers is, do you bring back Jones on a one-year deal hoping that maybe he can provide a little bit of a spark?
So he's not a guy that I would suggest that you, you have as your RB one anymore, and I, I don't even think the Vikings saw him as that, though they did definitely lean on him when he played.
with that said, you know, he's, like I said, thirty-one years old.
he played in just twelve games last season for the Vikings.
But ca- can that type of player be a backup, and can you put him behind Josh Jacobs knowing that Jacobs is probably gonna take seventy-five, eighty percent of the snaps?
But then you have a, a healthy, fresh Aaron Jones who's fast, speedy, who can catch the ball out of the backfield, who can do a lot of things.
he's got comfortability with Matt LaFleur.
He's got comfortability with Josh Jacobs, excuse me, Jordan Love.
who knows how he feels about Josh Jacobs 'cause, Jacobs actually, took his spot in Green Bay.
So interesting to think about would the Packers wanna bring him back.
I think if they can do it on a vet minimum deal.
a vet minimum right now, for a player who's been in the league as long as he has is about one point two million dollars.
to have that opportunity, even if it doesn't work out or even if he only plays in ten games, fourteen games, something like that, would be worth it, because of the one-two punch that you'd be getting with Josh Jacobs and Aaron Jones together.
So I think the Packers should, at the very least, look into this.
